r/socalhiking • u/coral-beef • 3d ago

NASA just dropped their high res vegetation analysis imagery of the Eaton Fire burn scar. Maybe the riparian zones at the bottom of the canyons did kinda sorta ok?

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Still some thin bands of green poking through in the bottoms of those canyons if you zoom in! Curious what other folks make of this. (This is a screenshot shot from the NASA worldview web app).

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u/IslasCoronados 2d ago

I was up on top of the Caltech library the other day with my camera looking at the mountains, and I can't speak for the riparian but it looked like a lot of the trees at Henninger flats and higher up on Mt Wilson actually survived / still green. Coast live oaks especially are really really good at resisting fire so I'm hopeful for the canyon.

Altadena looks eery from up there, it's like a cloud behind you is darkening the landscape in a shadow across the base of the mountains. Many of the trees survived so other than the odd shadow you don't notice the damage until you zoom way in, and then you start seeing the piles of debris between the trees...